has role has parent hydride is conjugate acid of long-chain fatty acid octadecanoate saturated fatty acid octadecanoic acid 18:0 284.272 284.478 A C18 straight-chain saturated fatty acid component of many animal and vegetable lipids. As well as in the diet, it is used in hardening soaps, softening plastics and in making cosmetics, candles and plastics. Beilstein:608585 C(CCCCCCCCCC)CCCCCCC(=O)O C18:0 C18H36O2 CAS:57-11-4 CH3-[CH2]16-COOH CHEBI:25631 CHEBI:28842 CHEBI:45710 DrugBank:DB03193 Drug_Central:4611 Gmelin:11738 HMDB:HMDB0000827 InChI=1S/C18H36O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18(19)20/h2-17H2,1H3,(H,19,20) KEGG:C01530 KEGG:D00119 KNApSAcK:C00001238 LIPID_MAPS_instance:LMFA01010018 MetaCyc:STEARIC_ACID Octadecanoic acid Octadecansaeure Oktadekansaeure PDBeChem:STE PMID:11425337 PMID:16448636 PMID:17439666 PMID:18982377 PMID:19468063 PMID:19838949 PMID:22735334 PMID:26884207 PMID:7763343 QIQXTHQIDYTFRH-UHFFFAOYSA-N Reaxys:608585 STEARIC ACID Stearinsaeure Wikipedia:Stearic_acid acide octadecanoique acide stearique chebi_ontology n-octadecanoic acid octadecanoic acid octadecoic acid stearic acid octadecane straight-chain saturated fatty acid plant metabolite